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Jane Austen Season on PBS

PBS has announced they are delaying their Jane Austen "festival" till January of 2008 so they can show adaptations of all Austen’s major works. They’ll be showing the following TV movies and mini-series:

TV movies from ITV in the U.K. (all dated 2007):

Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Northanger Park*

Sense and Sensibility*: a BBC/WGBH (Boston’s PBS station) production currently in development
Pride [...]

Foyle’s War Filming the Last Season

As I’ve been reporting, Foyle’s War 4 (a.k.a., seasons 4 & 5 in the U.K.) will begin airing on PBS in the U.S. this June. But over the pond in England, the final season is being filmed. Sigh, yes, the final season. Pictures and story of some of the filming can be seen here.

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The Big One Oh!

Reggie, Happy Tenth Birthday!

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Stop Target Practice!

I’m pretty sure these folks use me for target practice…and they are darn good!

Click to enlarge the comic. Comic copyrights are the Tribune Media Services.

Weird Weather Map

I’m not making this up…this is an actual screen capture of a Weather.com satellite image…I’ve never seen storm cells like this. Strange.

Wipe…out

I was going to post pictures of a friend’s new dog, but I took the pictures with my cell phone’s camera and the only way to get those pictures off the phone is to bluetooth them to my desktop computer, but my desktop computer is not usable right now because I’m running a wipe program [...]

Artwork For Foyle’s War Set 4

As reported earlier, here and here, PBS will be showing Foyle’s War 4 starting in June and the DVD will be available on July 17. Here now is the cover art for the DVD set.

Spider-Man

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to see Spider-Man…not the one in the theaters, the first of the Spider-Man movies.

I’m not a comic book reader, so I wasn’t in a rush to see this movie series. But so many people said the first two Spider-Man movies were A) Surprisingly good or B) Webtastic, [...]

Mother’s Day

Ain’t nothin’ like wantin’ to go to bed and one’s dog is outside, wide awake, barking, and chasing animals that left the yard right before he got there. Sigh.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Otterly Adorable!

This is unbelievable cute! Otterly adorable!!! (Be sure to turn the volume up a tad so you can hear. And watch the whole thing, it isn’t long, but the payoff is special!)

Hat tip: T.L. Thanks for sharing it with me.